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Uganda: Ethiopian led river Nile agreement signed without Egypt and Sudan
River Nile basin states have today signed an agreement on the Nile river basin cooperative framework in which they agreed to collectively work towards...
Uganda to seek permission from foreign countries to pursue LRA rebels
The government of Uganda will continue hunting for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and their leader Joseph Kony, wherever they are, until they are...
Ugandan livestock export to be banned
The government of Uganda will soon ban the exportation of live animals to
foreign countries.
This has today been revealed by Uganda's minister of state...
Uganda President attacks USA and Britain
Uganda's president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has attacked USA and Britain
for interfering into Uganda affairs. He has accused the two countries for saying that the...
Catholic priests in Uganda could face life for underage sex
Uganda's minister of ethics and integrity, James Nsaba Buturo has called on security agencies and Ugandans at large to get rid of immoral catholic...
USADF Signs Two Economic Development Grants: Funds Will Support Coffee and Sunflower Seed Oil Production in Uganda
In an effort to reduce poverty and create social benefits, the United States African Development Foundation has signed two grants to support economic development...
Innovation in Uganda: Professional Development that Makes a Difference
Social enterprise, PEPAL, in collaboration with LSE, brings its Innovation Programme to sub-Saharan Africa. Professionals from across the globe will be paired with partners...
Brazil lauds EAC, seeks closer ties: Country ready to co-operate in areas of technology, energy, railways and environment
Brazil has commended the East African Community (EAC) integration process and has expressed its desire to work closely with the five-nation regional bloc. Brazil's...
EU backed Somali forces begin training in Uganda
Arrangements for European Union (EU) to train some 2000 Somali troops in Uganda have been finalized.
Tuesday, a plane started ferrying some of the Somali...
Eastern Africa commemorates World Press Freedom Day 2010 (Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Madagascar)
UNESCO Offices in Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Bujumbura, together with the United Nations Communication Group in Tanzania and media stakeholders in the East-African...
Uganda: 3rd East African Investment Conference
The 3rd East African Investment Conference was held at the Commonwealth Speke Resort, Munyonyo from 27th - 30th April 2010 under the theme "EAC...
Uganda: Journalists Under Threat
Supporters of Uganda's ruling party, including government officials, are threatening and intimidating journalists in an effort to curb criticism of the government, Human Rights...
Catholic sex abuse scandals uncovered in Africa
Recent sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in Europe and the Americas seem to be spreading to Africa. Alleged claims...
Ugandan government officials blast U.S. Secretary of State
Uganda government officials have requested the United States of America to respect it's sovereignty and stop treating it as if it were a U.S....
39 Christian ‘cult’ members in Uganda prison for uncultured behaviour
39 members of a cult called 'End time Gospel' based in central Uganda, currently in remand prison for holding unlawful assembly and behaving in...
East African Community (EAC) adopts one laptop per child initiative
The East African Community today partnered with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to help provide every child...
Lord’s Resistance Army: A Regional Strategy beyond Killing Joseph Kony
To make an end of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) once and for all, national armies, the UN and civilians need to pool...
East African Community Investment Conference lauds development
Uganda's president ,Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today officially opened the 3rd East African Community Investment Conference at Munyonyo Resort hotel in the outskirts of...
Council chairperson assures community on ratification of common market protocol – Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda complete ratification process
The Chairperson of the East African Community Council of Ministers, Hon. Dr. Diodorus Kamala has assured the people of East Africa that Partner States...
Egypt better off settling water spat with Ethiopia led Nile Basin negotiations
Negotiations between the ten countries of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), April 13 in Sharm Al-Sheikh, hit the wall over Cairo's refusal to give...
Uganda: Karamoja asset programme set to tackle rustling
Karamoja region, located 400 kilometres north east of Uganda's capital
Kampala, is known for its cattle rustlers who attack and kill one another to rob...
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Uganda
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday night arrived in Uganda for a
two day state visit.
He arrived in Uganda at around 7.30 pm. He was welcomed...
Lord’s Resistance Army rebels surrender in Sudan
Two Lords Resistance army (LRA) rebels yesterday surrendered to the
Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in Yambio town in Western
Equatoria state of southern Sudan.
According to...
EAC inter-state security ministers meet in Bujumbura: Meeting witnesses public destruction of illicit arms
The Deputy Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC) in charge of Political Federation, Hon. Beatrice Kiraso, has said that the region's stability...
Ugandan women appeal to Museveni over sex and boreholes
Women in the northern Ugandan district of Yumbe, 400 kms north west of the capital Kampala, have complained that their inability to get...
East African Community: Clarification on the use of the East African passport
Following a Media Conference two weeks ago, which the Secretary General of the East African Community had held in Arusha to announce and promote...
TPRF Grant Provides Food for Ugandan Orphans
The Prem Rawat Foundation's grant of US$15,000 will provide food for orphaned street children in Kasese, Uganda
In the wake of protracted fighting between rebels...
African youth are major drivers in bid to attain African Union vision – experts
A three day meeting of experts of the African Union is underway in the resort town of Victoria Falls, in preparation for the...
EACJ scales up sensitisation on arbitration in the partner states
The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has organised a series of sensitisation workshops on its arbitration jurisdiction in the capitals of the five...
Shell East African exit attracts Asian and North African firms
An announcement by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the number one oil company in Europe, and a parent group of Shell Uganda, that it was...